mars this morning 2nd Oct. - Page 2

davidpretorius · #21 03-10-2005, 01:19 PM

let me try astral image

asimov (John) · #22 03-10-2005, 01:21 PM

Go for your life Davo.

BTW How did you answer so quick??

davidpretorius · #23 03-10-2005, 01:38 PM

here we go, from original to red green blue split to LR deconvolution (1,3) to re combined

gee you are getting good at this planet stuff mate!

saturn!!!!!!, venus????
I am always on the internet, so any threads i like or answer, get automatically emailed to me the second they change.

so as soon as i saw it come up, i jump on and have a look

asimov (John) · #24 03-10-2005, 01:52 PM

Whoh! Your getting good with that astraimage proggy too! I have'nt tried it as yet, I'm still being sensory-overloaded from registax....Just breaking into new territory with the wavelet section at the mo.

I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor after spotting Steves mars & uranus moon thread!! Now initiating destruct sequence of asimovs mars photo's......5......4.......3...... 2........1...............

davidpretorius · #25 03-10-2005, 02:05 PM

Steves was very good, you have a smaller eyepiece don't you that you can barlow???

asimov (John) · #26 03-10-2005, 02:25 PM

To cut a very long story short, I reckon I'm at my feasible maximum mag now Dave. It takes my 5-10 mins to get mars in the camera screen as it is I get 20 mins of battery power on the camera..No doubt I have to concentrate more so on perfect alignment of the finder versus the camera view.. I was thinking of dropping back to about 350X to make it easier. @ 400 + mag everything is REAL touchy, one tiny gust of wind & mars moves while your shooting heaps. I think I need to use a wider view EP such as my 5mm LV which should help with this. The 5mm barlowed will give me 640X ??

I don't think I'll be able to pull it off @ that mag!? I need slewing on both axis, & a motorized focuser!

(I'll give it a shot though)

davidpretorius · #27 03-10-2005, 05:17 PM

give it a rip!!!

RAJAH235 · #28 03-10-2005, 09:04 PM

John, What make camera, battery etc etc. Details please. Why? Because you may be able to make a 'Dummy' battery to fit in the camera, wired up to a larger battery & take longer shots. I did for my Canon SLR. Runs off 4 x AA's now, when used on my 'curved rod' barn door camera tracker.

L.

asimov (John) · #29 04-10-2005, 12:00 AM

I'm not going to worry too much about it Laurie. I always have a spare set of fully charged batteries ready if by chance I run out of juice half way through a shoot. Buying another set soon, then I'll have 3 sets in rotation.